Brian Jackson
Associate Director, Stakeholder Projects
Areas of expertise: Land, Water & Wildlife Programs, rivers and deltas
Work
Brian Jackson is is Associate Director, Stakeholder Projects for Environmental Defense Fund’s Coastal Louisiana Restoration project. Brian focuses on community resiliency and non-structural flood protection in Southern Louisiana.
Brian works closely with the Lower 9th Ward, United Houma Nation and Carrolton-Hollygrove communities to address their flood risks and future sustainability in the face of a vanishing Mississippi River Delta.
Background
Brian has a B.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an M.A.
in Applied Economics (with a focus on resource and environmental
economics) from Johns Hopkins University.